Waqf (Amendment) Bill: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee says JPC members from Opposition will boycott the meetings
Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) members from the Opposition will boycott the meetings starting from November 9. Banerjee was recently suspended for a day following his altercation during a JPC meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill. Meanwhile, seven Opposition lawmakers on Monday threatened to disassociate themselves from the JPC on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.
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Banerjee, blaming BJP's Jagdambika Pal, the JPC chairman, for alleged ‘high-handedness’ and ‘arbitrary action’ on the Waqf Amendment Bill, said that the chairman of the JPC has fixed a very hectic schedule and continuous rounds of meetings in Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna and Lucknow over six days, despite Sunday being a holiday.
“The opposition members of the JPC have decided to boycott the tour and associated meetings as the chairman has functioned in an arbitrary and high-handed manner,” Banerjee told media persons. Another Trinamool MP Nadimul Haque was also present with Banerjee in the meeting in Kolkata.
Banerjee claimed that due to this hectic schedule and continuous series of meetings, the Waqf stakeholders were not being given enough time. «Members from the ruling party are working as per their own agenda and not in the interest of the nation,” Banerjee noted.
Banerjee pointed out that the Opposition members of the JPC have recently met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on November 5, 2024. He said
